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More than half of India's languages may die in 50yrs: Survey
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03-08-2017
At least 400 languages or more than half languages spoken by India's 1.3 billion people may die out in next 50 years, a study by the People's Linguistic Survey of India (PSLI) stated. Further claiming that India has already lost 250 languages in last five decades, the survey said, "Each time a language is lost, the corresponding culture is killed."
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Job, Business Options Can Open Up If We Tap Linguistic Diversity: Manmohan Singh
Published on
03-08-2017
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed disappointment over Indians lagging behind in linguistic research despite the language diversity in the country.
He underlined that employment and business opportunities can open up if latent potential of India's linguistic diversity is tapped by linguistics and computational sciences. He made the remarks during the release event of 11 volumes of the People's Linguistic survey of India (PLSI).
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When human beings go past language
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03-08-2017
India is one of four countries, along with Nigeria, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, with the largest number of living languages. Since 2010, in a project initiated by Prof. G.N. Devy, founder of the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre in Vadodara, a large team of scholars has been conducting a comprehensive survey of Indian languages, publishing their findings in state-wise volumes from 2013 onwards.This month, the People’s Linguistic Survey Of India (PLSI) brought out another 11 volumes, taking the total to 37, and proposes to complete its task of publishing 92 books by 2020.
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Linguistic survey to be published in 33 volumes in Hindi
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12-08-2015
City-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BPRC), which had conducted a linguistic survey identifying 860 Indian languages, has decided to get its findings published in 33 volumes in Hindi, the communication language of 40 crore countrymen.
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Bhasha comes up with India’s first linguistic survey in Hindi
Published on
11-08-2015
Ahmedabad: In a first of its kind in the country, a linguistic survey has been carried out and printed in Hindi language.
The task of preparing the People’s Linguistic Survey of India was carried out by the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BRPC), Vadodara and it was formally dedicated to the nation by the Governor of Gujarat O.P. Kohli on Monday at Laxmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara, BRPC said in a media statement.
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Linguistic Survey to be published in 33 volumes in Hindi
Published on
11-08-2015
City-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BPRC), which had conducted a linguistic survey identifying 860 Indian languages, has decided to get its findings published in 33 volumes in Hindi, the communication language of 40 crore countrymen.... - See more at: http://www.kolkatanews.net/index.php/sid/235696565#sthash.kMbgoXLP.dpuf
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દુનિયાનાં સૌથી મોટા ભાષાના સર્વેક્ષણનાં હિન્દી ભાષાનાં ગ્રંથોનું લોકાર્પણ કરાયું
Published on
11-08-2015
વડોદરા: વડોદરા સ્થિત ભાષા સંશોધન અને પ્રકાશન કેન્દ્ર દ્રારા આજે છેલ્લા 100 વર્ષમાં પ્રથમવાર ભારતીય ભાષાઓનું સર્વેક્ષણનાં હિન્દી ભાષામાં મુદ્રિત કરાયેલા ગ્રંથોનું લોકાર્પણ લક્ષ્મીવિલાસ પેલેસના બેંક્વેટ હોલમાં રાજ્યના ગવર્નર ઓ.પી. કોહલીના વરદ હસ્તે કરવામાં આવ્યું હતું. આ પ્રસંગે તેમણે જણાવ્યું હતું કે, ડૉ.દેવીનો ભાષાઓના સંરક્ષણ માટેનો ફાળો અમૂલ્ય છે. ભાષા લુપ્ત થતાં બધુ નાશ પામે છે તે કોઇને સમજાવવાની જરૂર નથી. આ સર્વેક્ષણમાં ઘણા ભાગ્યેજ સાંભળવામાં આવ્યાં હોય તેવા શબ્દો પણ આવરી લેવામાં આવ્યાં છે.’
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Linguistic Survey to be published in 33 volumes in Hindi
Published on
11-08-2015
VADODARA: City-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BPRC), which had conducted a linguistic survey identifying 860 Indian languages, has decided to get its findings published in 33 volumes in Hindi, the communication language of 40 crore countrymen.
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Linguistic Survey to be published in 33 volumes in Hindi
Published on
11-08-2015
City-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BPRC), which had conducted a linguistic survey identifying 860 Indian languages, has decided to get its findings published in 33 volumes in Hindi, the communication language of 40 crore countrymen.
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Linguistic Survey to be published in 33 volumes in Hindi
Published on
11-08-2015
City-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BPRC), which had conducted a linguistic survey identifying 860 Indian languages, has decided to get its findings published in 33 volumes in Hindi, the communication language of 40 crore countrymen
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300 desi languages tongue-tied
Published on
11-08-2015
VADODARA, AUGUST 11:
City-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BPRC), which had conducted a linguistic survey identifying 860 Indian languages, has decided to get its findings published in 33 volumes in Hindi, the spoken language of 40 crore Indians.
Giving details about the survey (People’s Linguistic Survey of India), Ganesh Devy, founder of BPRC and a recipient of Padmashree said the survey which was completed in 2013, identifies 860 Indian languages with Arunachal Pradesh having the maximum number of dialects.
Also, 300 languages are no longer traceable since independence, he claimed.
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Letters are Divine to me
Published on
15-03-2015
ભાષા કર્મશીલ પદ્મશ્રી પ્રો. ગણેશ દેવી ઉદ્દેશ્યવાદમાં માને છે. જીવનમાં કેટલાક નિયમો પર અફર રહ્યા હોવાનો સહજ સ્વીકારે છે
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साठ वर्षांत मातृभाषांचे खच्चीकरण - भाषाशास्त्रज्ञ पद्मश्री डॉ. गणेश देवी यांची खंत
Published on
03-02-2015
गेल्यासाठ वर्षांत साहित्यात अनेक प्रवाह स्थिर होताना दिसतात. यातील १९६१ ते २०११ या काळात जी जनगणना झाली त्यात सुरुवातीला हजार ६५२ मातृभाषांचा उल्लेख होता; परंतु २००१ ते २०११ मध्ये केवळ १२२ भाषांचीच नावे दिसतात. हा चिंतेचा विषय असून ७० वर्षांचा भाषेचा इतिहास असताना साठ वर्षांत १५०० भाषांचे खच्चीकरण झाल्याची खंत वाटते, असे परखड मत, भाषाशास्त्रज्ञ पद्मश्री डॉ. गणेश देवी यांनी रविवारी व्यक्त केले.
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आशयघन बोलीभाषांना वाचवणे आज मोठे आव्हान
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02-02-2015
औरंगाबाद : आदिम काळात चिन्हे, संकेत आणि तालातून जन्मलेली भाषा कालांतराने शब्दांची बोलीभाषा बनली. तिला हे भौतिक रूप प्राप्त झाल्यानंतर तिचा कालौघात विकास झाला. आज जागतिकीकरणाच्या रेट्यात मात्र आशयसंपन्न बोली झपाट्याने मृत होत असून, त्यांना वाचवणे हे मोठेच आव्हान आहे, अशी भावना विख्यात भाषाशास्त्रज्ञ व बोलींचे अभ्यासक पद्मश्री डॉ. गणेश देवी यांनी व्यक्त केले.
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Hindi Outpaces English Globally: Linguistic Survey
Published on
12-11-2014
The global growth rate of Hindi appears to have outpaced the global growth of English, according to estimates from the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), an organization surveying Indian languages from the ground up, particularly those spoken by fragile communities.
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Award for Excellence in Book Publication
Published on
05-10-2014
The People's Linguistic Survey of India volume for Maharashtra (in Marathi) has won an Award from The Federation of India Publishers for excellence in Book production in the category of Reference Books - Regional Languages printed and published in India in 2013-2014.
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आदिवासियों का ज्ञान उनके जीवन जीने की कला है- गणेश देवी
Published on
23-09-2014
स्वभाव से अभिजात्य माने जाने वाले अँग्रेजी जैसे विषय के प्रोफेसर एवं साहित्य अकादमी एवं पद्मश्री आदि पुरस्कारों से पुरस्कृत प्रो. गणेश देवी भारतीय भाषाओं के लोक सर्वेक्षण की योजना पर बिना किसी सरकारी मदद के काम करना शुरू किया था और सफलतापूर्वक आगे बढ़ रहे हैं। प्रस्तुत है उनसे संपादक से की गई बातचीत के मुख्य अंश)
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Preserving heritage of language diversity
Published on
09-09-2014
THE world over there is an anxiety
about languages dying or, perhaps,
language itself dying. There
are several estimates for the number
of dying languages, for no one really
knows how many natural languages there
exist in the world. But against Unesco’s
assumed figure of 6,000 natural languages,
it is estimated that two-thirds will
perish by the end of this century, and only
a few hundred will function with all their
domains intact. The spectre is terrifying
for whoever speaks and is human. Our
century will alas be remembered by the
memory chip of the future as the ‘Aphasia
Century’ during which natural languages
were silenced.
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Tamil Nadu: where the masses set the norm
Published on
27-08-2014
Word is that Tamil is a language like no other. And researchers at the People's Linguistic Survey of India have several reasons to offer. Their decadelong research presented in a book on the languages of Tamil Nadu -which will be released next month -shows that linguistically, the state is a "unique cultural zone."
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ડૉ. ગણેશ દેવી સાથે દીર્ઘ મુલાકાત
Published on
18-08-2014
આપણે ત્યાં એક વિભાજન એવું છે કે એક બાજુ બૌદ્ધિકો છે અને એક બાજુ કર્મશીલો. પણ કેટલીક વ્યક્તિ એવી પણ હોય છે કે જે ટેબલ લેમ્પ અને ટેબલની સીમાથી બહાર જઈને બૌદ્ધિક હોવાની સાથે સાથે એ કર્મશીલ પણ હોય. ગુજરાતમાં ડૉ. ગણેશ દેવી એક એવું નામ છે. મૂળ અંગ્રેજીમાં પ્રોફેસર પણ આપણી પરંપરાની અંદર સંન્યાસ લઈએ અને પછી એક બીજો વેશ ધારણ કરીએ એમ તેમણે બધું છોડીને અત્યારે તેઓ છેલ્લાં 15 વર્ષોથી બહુ જ સક્રિય રીતે આદિવાસી ભાષા, સંસ્કૃિત અને એ સિવાય વિમુક્ત જનજાતિ (ડિનોટિફાઈડ ટ્રાઈબ્સ) અને એમના અધિકારો માટે સતત કામ કરતા રહ્યા છે. ભૂંસાતી જતી ભાષાઓનાં જતન અંગેનાં તેમનાં કામ માટે થોડાં વર્ષો પહેલાં એમને ‘યુનેસ્કો’નો પ્રતિષ્ઠિત લિંગ્વાપેક્ષ એવોર્ડ મળ્યો એ પહેલાં પણ તેમને નેધરલેન્ડની સરકારનો એવોર્ડ મળી ચૂકેલો અને ભારતની કેન્દ્રીય સાહિત્ય અકાદમીનો અંગ્રેજી સાહિત્યમાં પ્રદાન માટે એમને એવોર્ડ પણ મળી ચૂક્યો છે. હાલમાં જ તેઓ પદ્મશ્રીથી સન્માનિત થયા છે. તેમની સાથે થોડી અંતરંગ, થોડી બહિરંગ વાતો. (ય.દ.)
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“The Languages of J&K” presented to Governor
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01-07-2014
SRINAGAR, June 30: Prof. G.N. Devy, Chairperson, The People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) and Dr. Omkar N. Koul, member, National Editorial Collective, PLSI called on N.N. Vohra, Governor, here at the Raj Bhavan today.
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Book on languages of J&K released
Published on
30-06-2014
A book on the languages of Jammu and Kashmir was released by the vice-chancellor of Kashmir University, A M Shah, at its campus here today and the book's first copy was presented to state Governor N N Vohra.
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Prof Devy, Koul call on Governor
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30-06-2014
Srinagar, June 30: The People’s Linguistic Survey (PLSI) Chairperson, Prof. G N Devy and National Editorial Collective, PLSI member, Dr. Omkar N Koul called on Governor N N Vohra here at the Raj Bhavan today.
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“The Languages of J&K” presented to Governor
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30-06-2014
Prof. G.N. Devy, Chairperson, The People’s Linguistic Survey (PLSI), and Dr. Omkar N. Koul, member, National Editorial Collective, PLSI called on Mr. N.N. Vohra, Governor, here at the Raj Bhavan today.Prof. Devy and Dr. Koul presented the first copy of “The Languages of Jammu and Kashmir” to the Governor.
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The languages of Jammu and Kashmir’ released at KU
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30-06-2014
The languages of Jammu and Kashmir’ (people`s Linguistic Survey of India, Vol 12.) – was released at the University of Kashmir Monday by its interim Vice-Chancellor Prof AM Shah.
In a statement here, it KU spokesperson said that the book based on the evolution of various languages of the state of J&K and edited by renowned linguist Omkar Nath Koul was released during an impressive function organized by Department of Linguistics, KU in collaboration with Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Vadodara and Orient Blackswan Publications.
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Hindi prominence order: Why not an inclusive policy for our disappearing languages?
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25-06-2014
The Indian Government’s recent order to various official bodies and organizations to give “prominence” to Hindi when using social media has triggered a debate. Not surprising in a country that speaks close to 800 languages. With 197 endangered languages, India tops the list of UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, the country has already lost about 250 languages in the last 50 years.
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Need to preserve linguistic diversity, says expert
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13-02-2014
PUNE: The future for most of the 780 surviving native Indian languages is bleak if they continue to be neglected, linguist Ganesh Devy said on Wednesday. Treating languages as a form of economic capital is the only way to retain the country's linguistic diversity, he said.
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Assam’s lost and found languages
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12-09-2013
Till recently, tea tribes in Assam did not know what grammar was. Most of them went to Assamese-medium schools, and were expected to forget their own mother tongue, till Peoples Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) linguist and researcher, Ambeshwar Gogoi, started visiting these tribes near Doom Dooma and other tea towns in Upper Assam in 2011. The linguistic survey was carried out across India and the survey report was released in Delhi last week in 50 volumes.
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'780 languages spoken in India, 250 died out in last 50 years'
Published on
10-09-2013
Kolkata: While people in India presently speak in 780 different languages, the country has lost nearly 250 languages in the last 50 years, an expert said here Tuesday.
The People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) has completed a comprehensive linguistic survey of the country and would publish its reports in 50 volumes contained in 72 books in September.
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780 languages spoken in India, 250 died out in last 50 years
Published on
10-09-2013
While people in India presently speak in 780 different languages, the country has lost nearly 250 languages in the last 50 years, an expert said here Tuesday.
The People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) has completed a comprehensive linguistic survey of the country and would publish its reports in 50 volumes contained in 72 books in September.
This is the first linguistic survey carried out in the country after Irish linguistic scholar George Abraham Grierson conducted the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898 to 1928.
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India speaks...780 ways
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10-09-2013
In 1898, an Irish linguist, George Abraham Grierson, took up the first-ever Linguistic Survey of India. Over three years, he would come up with a record of 179 languages and many more dialects spoken in pre-Independence India. In 2005-06, more than 100 years later, the Human Resources Development Ministry attempted a similar feat, setting up a 'Bharat Bhasha Vikas Yojana'. The project was dropped due to technical reasons. In 2007, the government again proposed to conduct what it called the New Linguistic Survey of India. The project did not take off.
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780 languages spoken in India, 250 died out in last 50 years'
Published on
10-09-2013
While people in India presently speak in 780 different languages, the country has lost nearly 250 languages in the last 50 years, an expert said here Tuesday.
The People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) has completed a comprehensive linguistic survey of the country and would publish its reports in 50 volumes contained in 72 books in September.
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India becoming graveyard of languages: Ganesh Devy
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10-09-2013
Vadodara: The Bhasha Research and Publication Center headed by tribal activist and writer Ganesh Devy has completed a language survey that identifies 860 Indian languages, with Arunachal Pradesh having the maximum. Devy spoke in an interview about the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI). Edited excerpts:
How did you come to conduct this survey on your own without any government funding?
In the census report of 1961, a total of 1,652 mother tongues were mentioned. The 1971 census mentioned only 108 languages. This was because the government decided not to disclose languages that are spoken by less than 10,000 people. As per latest government figures, there are 22 scheduled languages and the remaining fall under the “all others” section or the non-scheduled languages.
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Over 220 Indian languages have disappeared
Published on
10-09-2013
A survey by the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre has revealed has revealed that India has lost about 20% of its languages in the past five decades.
In 1961 the country had over 1,100 languages, but nearly 220 of them have disappeared, said, Ganesh Devy, writer and lead co-ordinator of the survey called the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI). The study was carried out for over 2 years from 2011.
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Language survey reveals diversity
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10-09-2013
There are over 780 languages and 66 different scripts in India. Arunachal Pradesh is the richest among the States with 90 languages. These findings and more, are set to come to light with the publication of a baseline survey of Indian languages by the People’s Linguistic Survey of India. Comprising 50 volumes, the survey would be published between September 2013 and December 2014.
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Does North East India have the highest per capita language density in the world
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10-09-2013
The baseline survey on Indian languages conducted by the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) throws important light on the state of languages in the country. Though the complete work of PLSI covering all the states and union territories in the country is scheduled to be published in 50 volumes from September 2013 to December 2014; a wealth of information has already emerged from the preliminaries. Some interesting facts that have come up are – 780 languages are spoken in the country; 250 languages have been lost in the last 50 years; there are close to 66 scripts; Arunachal Pradesh with 90 languages, Assam with 55 languages and Gujarat with 48 languages are the three most linguistically diverse states and West Bengal having 38 languages but having 9 scripts has the maximum diversity in terms of scripts. - See more at: http://www.easternpanorama.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2556:points-of-difference&catid=6:contents&Itemid=10#sthash.q6CCvdOK.dpuf
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The A, B, C, D of our DNA
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10-09-2013
The story of languages lost and found and why we should be able to emote in our mother tongue Keen on the evolution of Indian languages—which ones survive and why others fade away with time—I would occasionally visit the website of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), a unique project by Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, a Vadodara-based non-governmental organization. Peopleslinguisticsurvey.org can immerse you in information about scheduled and non-scheduled languages, those of nomads or Adivasis, languages spoken among the Indian diaspora and so on. These readings would urge me to follow up with other relevant material on rituals and practices, festival and culinary traditions, dress, costumes and various cultural aspects of a particular community.
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20 Pct of India's Languages Vanished in the Past 5 Decades: Survey
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10-09-2013
Bangalore: In the last 50 years, India one of the most linguistically diverse nation, lost about 20 percent of its languages, said a survey by the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre.
The country though comprises of twenty nine states and seven Union Territories, it had 1,100 languages in 1961, out of which 220 of them have vanished, reports Sandhya Soman for TNN.
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'780 languages spoken in India, 250 died out in last 50 years'
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10-09-2013
While people in India presently speak in 780 different languages, the country has lost nearly 250 languages in the last 50 years, an expert said in Kolkata.
The People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) has completed a comprehensive linguistic survey of the country and would publish its reports in 50 volumes contained in 72 books in September.
This is the first linguistic survey carried out in the country after Irish linguistic scholar George Abraham Grierson conducted the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898 to 1928.
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Languages are economic capital - India's languages will survive : Ganesh Devy
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10-09-2013
Award-winning writer and academic Ganesh Devy recently headed the People's Linguistic Survey of India, a nationwide documentation of Indian languages. Speaking with Sandhya Soman, Devy discussed the survival of Indian languages, how our bilingual history and technological future help — and how English is in fact showing signs of exhaustion now:
What do you think of Unesco's prediction regarding India that around 3,000 languages spoken today will disappear?
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In India more than 880 spoken languages, study concludes
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10-09-2013
Linguistic Survey Popular India (PLSI) has identified more than 780 living languages, but there are a hundred more spoken in remote areas Devy told dpa. This figure contrasts sharply with that of 122 languages in the census of 2001, after a four-decade policy "omitting languages with fewer than 10,000 speakers." Research is the first comprehensive study carried out in India since been performed by Irish George Grierson late nineteenth century. Its director, Devy, chose to include all languages, though hardly count with four speakers, and the result is impressive: against the 880 languages hablandas in China, in Europe, for example, only 250 are spoken.
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Five volumes on Indian languages released
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10-09-2013
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS): The Peoples' Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) here Thursday released five volumes on various Indian languages documenting their history, landmark events, folklore and songs.
PLSI is a nationwide survey aimed at working out alternate ways of development of the various Indian languages and maintaining organic links between scholarship and the social context. It has planned release of 50 volumes on the Indian languages and divided them into state and national series.
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Over 200 languages lost in diverse India, study finds
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10-09-2013
MORE than 200 languages have vanished in India over the last 50 years, a new study says, blaming urban migration and fear among nomadic tribes of speaking their traditional tongues.
The extensive study, conducted throughout the country over four years and released this week, has found 230 languages have “elapsed” while another 870 have survived the test of time in richly diverse but rapidly modernising India, home to a vast number of indigenous or tribal peoples.
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National Consultation on Peoples Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) Community Ethnography & Eco-cultural Mapping
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10-09-2013
Indira Gandhi National Open University, School of Translation Studies is organizing one day National Consultation on “People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), Community Ethnography & Eco-cultural Mapping”. The inaugural programme will be held in the Convention Centre of IGNOU on 6th September, 2013 at 10.30 a.m. Prof. D.P. Pattnaik, Founder Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages will be the Guest of Honour and the Keynote Address will be delivered by Dr. K.K. Chakravarty, Chancellor, NEUPA & President, Lalit Kala Akademi who also served as Secretary in the Govt. of India. Prof. M. Aslam, VC, IGNOU will Chair the session.
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Cultural Loss: India Lost 250 Languages in Last 50 Years
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10-09-2013
India’s diversity is well evident from its 850 identified living languages, four times more than that of Europe; however, the country has lost 250 languages in the last 50 years, according to a recent survey.
“In India we have several hundred living languages. It could be more than 850, out of which we were able to study 780 languages. And if the benchmark is the 1961 census we have lost 250 languages in last 50 years,” Ganesh Devy, a noted linguist and Chairperson of People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) said in the survey, according to a Press Trust of India report.
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Languages are economic capital — India`s languages will survive: Ganesh Devy
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10-09-2013
Award-winning writer and academic Ganesh Devy recently headed the People's Linguistic Survey of India, a nationwide documentation of Indian languages. Speaking with Sandhya Soman, Devy discussed the survival of Indian languages, how our bilingual history and technological future help — and how English is in fact showing signs of exhaustion now:
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State of language: Loud voices muffle smaller ones
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10-09-2013
Once upon a time, strong nations were imagined to be those with a single, unifying language. Many used to wonder if India could stay united if it allowed so many tongues to flourish. A compromise was reached and a unique experiment in federalism began when free India decided to rearrange the provinces of British India on the basis of language. Half a century later, the exercise has started to unravel with Telugu speakers of Telangana set to part with the rest of Andhra Pradesh, a linguistic state formed in 1956. A language, clearly, need not necessarily be a unifying force.
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130 living languages in region - ‘Wealth’ of variants in NE, says surveyor
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10-09-2013
Guwahati, July 17: There are 130 living languages, including variants, in five states of the Northeast, some of them probably spoken by only four or five people, a survey conducted by an NGO has found.
G.N. Devy, chairperson of Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), an initiative undertaken under the auspices of the Gujarat-based Bhasa Research and Publication Centre, told reporters here today that they had completed the survey in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Manipur and the findings would be released in book form in New Delhi on September 5. He termed the Northeast’s diversity of language as its “wealth”.
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News article
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10-09-2013
On the other hand Indian courts and offices allow use of 22 languages," says the linguist who recently completed an ambitious survey in the country, which identified 860 Indian languages.
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IGNOU organising National Consultation on Peoples Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) Community Ethnography & Eco-cultural Mapping
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10-09-2013
Indira Gandhi National Open University, School of Translation Studies is organizing one day National Consultation on “People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), Community Ethnography & Eco-cultural Mapping”. The inaugural programme will be held in the Convention Centre of IGNOU on 6th September, 2013 at 10.30 a.m. Prof. D.P. Pattnaik, Founder Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages will be the Guest of Honour and the Keynote Address will be delivered by Dr. K.K. Chakravarty, Chancellor, NEUPA & President, Lalit Kala Akademi who also served as Secretary in the Govt. of India. Prof. M. Aslam, VC, IGNOU will Chair the session.
The programme will aim at discussing the work done under the PLSI. The PLSI is a result of the hard work of about 3000 language workers all over the country who worked for four years to prepare their representatives in different Indian languages. In this sense, it is a historic event because it is a second linguistic survey after the first linguistic survey by George Abraham Grierson. It is a kind of reality check of status of different languages in the country. It will be followed by two stages of Community Generated Ethnographies & Eco-cultural Mapping. The meeting will discuss these two future projects as well.
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PLSI
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10-09-2013
This presentation of Gramophone Recordings from the Linguistic Survey of India consists of digitized recordings originally collected in South Asia during a period from 1913 until 1929. Intended as a supplement to Sir George A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India published between 1904 and 1927, the recordings of stories, songs and poems were collected by provincial and presidential governments of British-ruled India in cooperation with Grierson and the Gramophone Company, Calcutta.
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India’s certainly thriving in its linguistic diversity
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10-09-2013
Rangeela Bhili glances around nervously, brushing her thumbs against each other. It’s almost as if she’s at an inquisition. Her teacher at the informal and multilingual school where she is being reschooled in her mother tongue Dungra Bhili is bringing up an unpleasant past. “Why did you not learn anything at school?” Chaudhary Rekha, the teacher, asks. Despite having studied till Class VII in a Gujarati medium public school, Rangeela could not even write her name properly. “Because our teacher, whenever he came, always taught in Gujarati,” she says softly in Dungra Bhili. A year at the Tejgadh-based Adivasi Academy’s Vasant Bahubhashi Shala has changed that. She can now read and write with much greater fluency. And all thanks to classes in a language she can finally understand.
Her classmate Jiram Rathava, officially schooled till Class VI in a Gujarati medium school, cut a similar sorry figure when he enrolled at the multilingual school. He couldn’t even write his name and used a thumb impression instead. Today he is being taught Gujarati and other subjects in his mother tongue Rathawi and has made remarkable progress. In a year’s time, when the two students are reintroduced into the official education system, they’ll be much better equipped to deal with what the textbooks have in store for them.
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10 languages in state critically endangered
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10-09-2013
KOLKATA: If the PLSI survey brought news to cheer about, some facts revealed by it may as well prove agonizing for the state. As many as nine to 10 languages in Bengal, specifically in the north, are either extinct or on the verge of extinction, the survey alerted. "These languages need urgent attention for their survival.
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English eats into 20 Tamil Nadu languages
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10-09-2013
The growing use of English is reportedly sounding the death knell for many local languages spoken in Tamil Nadu. Most of the 20 languages (of which 17 are tribal) are in different stages of extinction, says a recent survey by People’s Linguistic Survey of India, a right based movement, squarely blaming the increased use of English and official apathy for the situation.
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Speaking in many tongues
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10-09-2013
The structure of the Indian governance system poses a paradox. While the local Panchayat system is praised for its capability to address issues at the village level, the policy of the Indian Census undermines this very spirit.
The Census does not enumerate languages with less than 10,000 speakers.
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We are talking more using fewer words
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10-09-2013
Ganesh Devy, Founder, Bhasha Trust
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arts, culture and entertainment
language
education
teaching and learning
The exhaustive, community-based work to bring all languages on record in the People’s Linguistic Survey of India also revealed the fate of the country’s multilingualism, says the project's chairperson
The release of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) report at Gandhi Smriti in Delhi on September 5 will mark a significant milestone for 63-year-old Ganesh Devy’s Bhasha Research and Publication Centre based in Vadodara. It is the first survey of living Indian languages as people perceive them, conducted by the communities themselves. The 780 languages revealed are in stark contrast to the 2001 Census figure of 122 languages, following a 40-year policy of omitting languages with less than 10,000 speakers. Mr. Devy tells Chitra Padmanabhan, a Delhi-based writer, that the PLSI is a rights-based movement, which sees language as crucial for the effective development of fragile communities and for stemming the erosion of India’s diverse, multilingual, and composite heritage.
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PLSI to release 70 volumes on Indian languages on 5th sep 2013
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09-09-2013
Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) is all set to release 70 volumes on Indian languages, including the volume on Karnataka, on September 5, 2013.
PLSI Chairman Ganesh Devy has said that copies of all the 70 volumes will be carried to Gandhi Memorial, Rajghat, New Delhi, and dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi.
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India's lost 220 languages in past 20 years
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09-09-2013
India has lost around 20% of its languages in the past five decades, a survey by the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre has revealed.
The country had 1,100 languages in 1961, but nearly 220 of them have disappeared, said Ganesh Devy, writer and lead coordinator of the survey called the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI). The survey was carried out over two years from 2011.
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Five volumes on Indian languages released
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09-09-2013
NEW DELHI: The Peoples' Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) here on Thursday released five volumes on various Indian languages documenting their history, landmark events, folklore and songs.
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Over 780 languages and 66 scripts in India - PLSI
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09-09-2013
Ganesh N Devy, Chairperson PLSI, announced this in press conferences in Kolkata and Guwahati in July. As the report in The Hindu said: "There are over 780 languages and 66 different scripts in India. Arunachal Pradesh is the richest among the States with 90 languages.... Researchers found that Assam with 55 languages, Gujarat 48, Maharashtra 39, and West Bengal 38 are among the most linguistically diverse States.... The survey, Dr. Devy said, has revealed that the north-eastern parts of the country have one of the highest per capita language densities in the worl
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Five volumes on Indian languages released
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09-09-2013
PLSI is a nationwide survey aimed at working out alternate ways of development of the various Indian languages and maintaining organic links between scholarship and the social context. It has planned release of 50 volumes on the Indian languages and divided them into state and national series.
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Five volumes on Indian languages released
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09-09-2013
The Peoples' Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) here Thursday released five volumes on various Indian languages documenting their history, landmark events, folklore and songs.
PLSI is a nationwide survey aimed at working out alternate ways of development of the various Indian languages and maintaining organic links between scholarship and the social context. It has planned release of 50 volumes on the Indian languages and divided them into state and national series.
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Five volumes on Indian languages released
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09-09-2013
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Peoples' Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) here Thursday released five volumes on various Indian languages documenting their history, landmark events, folklore and songs.
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Linguistic survey in final leg to document 780 languages
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09-09-2013
Over 100 years after Irish Orientalist John Abraham Grierson brought out his detailed study of Indian languages in 1900 after an effort of 28 years, the Peoples Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), a rights-based movement is now in the final stages of bringing out the final documentation in the country.
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India fight to preserve dying languages
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09-09-2013
NEW DELHI, India — This fall, a plucky Indian professor of English will fire the first shot in a battle to revolutionize how this large, diverse country perceives itself.
The key to his project: an army of some 2,000 volunteer linguists, translators and typists.
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Five volumes on Indian languages released
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09-09-2013
PLSI is a nationwide survey aimed at working out alternate ways of development of the various Indian languages and maintaining organic links between scholarship and the social context. It has planned release of 50 volumes on the Indian languages and divided them into state and national series.
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Protecting India's Linguistic Riches
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09-09-2013
In New Delhi this week, the findings of an ambitious and methodologically inventive survey of Indian linguistic plenitude were made available to the public. The project, called the People's Linguistic Survey of India, establishes the number of languages currently in circulation at an astonishing 780.
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Recognition for voice of India’s hearing impaired
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09-09-2013
When Ganesh Devy of People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), set out to map all languages spoken in the country, he was in for a few surprises. He discovered that India spoke a whopping 780 languages and that 200 languages had vanished in the last 50 years.
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Survey notifies 780 languages
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09-09-2013
The People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), the first of its kind survey on the living Indian languages after Independence, has notified 780 languages in the country, highlighting that India is a garden of languages and not a graveyard of languages.
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Paper Article
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09-09-2013
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country - Emil M Cioran, Romanian philosopher.
Once upon a time, strong nations were imagined to be those with a single, unifying language. Many used to wonder if India could stay united if it allowed so many tongues to flourish.
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[MLE] Outlook article on PLSI points out the value of MLE
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09-09-2013
This week there are lots of articles in the media about the language situation in India because of the release of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) results. The Outlook Article: Speaking of us links the issue of language loss and language celebration to the need for multilingual education. It starts with touching story about a tribal girl getting a second chance in a multilingual school in Gujarat after she failed in the regular system:
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Over 200 languages lost in the country, a struggle to save others
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09-09-2013
Garjan Kumar Mallick is a man on a mission. He is determined to save his mother tongue which is slowly dying out. Belonging to the Dhimaal tribe in Darjeeling, Mr Mallick is among the 350-odd people left in the country who can speak the dialect, which has the same name as their community
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20 languages go extinct in Andhra Pradesh: Study
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23-08-2013
Andhra Pradesh has lost 20 languages in the last 50 years, researchers said after the completion of a four-year pan-India linguistic survey. The study links extinction of languages to livelihood threats and pressure on tribes to integrate with mainstream society.
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Next Nobel prize must go to Kannada: Devy
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23-08-2013
What fascinates Ganesh N Devy (63), who started his career as a professor of English, most is the formation and evolution of languages. Since 1996, Devy has been researching on the life of languages. He spearheaded the recently concluded People's Linguistic Survey of India. Excerpts from the interview.
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People's Linguistic Survey of India documents 'live' languages
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03-05-2012
GUWAHATI: People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), a non-governmental campaign for protection of languages, has embarked on documenting 'live' languages among diverse communities in the northeast as part of its efforts to safeguard the cultural heritage of the country.
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Assam Languages
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03-05-2012
The People’s Linguistic Survey of India today said the number of speakers of Assam’s two scheduled languages, Assamese and Bodo, is increasing over the years while the other languages are showing a declining trend.
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India's tribal people fast becoming lost for words
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30-04-2012
India losing languages faster than anywhere else on earth. Of the 7000 languages now spoken around the world, only about 600 are expected to survive until the end of the century. Totopara in India is fighting to keep it's language alive.
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Bigger Language Carnival in Future
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11-01-2012
After the success of Bhasha Vasudha 2012, Bhasha Research and Publication Center hopes to bring representatives of around 7000 languages together at one place in near future.
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Chotro International Conference
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06-01-2012
Chotro International Conference on Imagining the Intangible: Languages, Literature and Visual Arts of the Indigenous is the fourth Conference being held in the Chotro Conference series. Organized by Bhasha Research and Publication Centre in association with European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) is being convened at Vadodara from the 6th to the 8th January 2012.
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Bhasha Vasudha 2012
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03-01-2012
Global Language conference to take place in Vadodara, Gujarat. News article in Sandesh, a Gujarati language newspaper.
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‘People's linguistic survey' next year
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11-03-2010
After about 100 years, a “people's linguistic survey” will be carried out in the country sometime next year, the founder of the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Professor Ganesh Devy, announced here on Wednesday.
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